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I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ayo, whatever has been making recommendations for my next few terms in Visual Studio can go straight onto my phone, that shit is accurate 90% of the time it’s sometimes a wee bit concerning

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I turned it off a long time ago when it started replacing entire sentences. So annoying!!

I still have the suggestions on but I might turn that off too because it keeps suggesting words in other languages even though I'm on the English keyboard and don't know much in any other language (and the only other keyboard I have is the Spanish one).

Also the dictionary doesn't have a shit ton of common words in it for some reason, so if I can't think of the proper spelling I have to look it up anyway. Which is also annoying because search engines suck and I never have a hard copy handy.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I keep hoping that its crapness will at least teach me to proofread before I hit the Post button. It hasn't... but I can hope.

[–] brap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I use the word "fuck" a lot. I have added it many times yet it insists on babying me and trying to protect my fucking feelings by not suggesting it. Infuriating.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Iirc FlexT9 was ducking (nope, not fixing it this time, rofl) great for the... Galaxy S2?, but then Swype bought em out and it's been downhill ever since.

So... it's not that the tech is bad, it's that it's being hamstrung somewhere.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

i have a flip phone. i don't use sms, but occasionally i make a quick note in the little 'notepad'. the good ol' tap-tap-tap is more efficient than its horrible predictive text.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Complete garbage. It has to have gotten worse. Like it’s training ai instead of trying to help us. I’m convinced

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Join the revolution. Reject predictive text.

Thumb-Key

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

HTC had one of the best keyboards. Each key had 2 letters on each key (except 1 or 2 that had 3) and it never failed to guess what word I wanted. Stopped working with android 4 IIRC.

Found it on a XDA thread from 2010

Sadly still doesn't work

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Since iOS 17, I have had no problems with text input. It feels better than anything that preceded it which I used on Apple or other platforms. That is true for swiping or typing and in either of the two languages I use. I’m actually blown away by how good it is sometime, correcting words based on the clause around it.

I also have an S10 Lite that I keep up to date. The native input there is okay, but not nearly as accurate.

[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Autocorrect is slave-mentality

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's my biggest pet peeve, when it auto suggests words that don't exist.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

TBH, Microsoft’s Swiftkey was pretty decent before they started adding Bing AI bullshit. I’ve since switched to Apple’s default keyboard and it’s painful.

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